“Ethnic” Food and the Cultural Legacies of Orientalism
Links to this week's readings can be found at: https://linktr.ee/1882WeeklyReadings This week, we're looking at the messy intersections of food and culture with hopes of untangling the ways in which Orientalist tropes often reappear in disguise as multiculturalism. Can food truly act as a space for unproblematic cultural exchange? How can we create a vision of multiculturalism that centers not only the food itself but the people who make it? Readings: Anthony Bourdain (articles linked above) — In an era in which the hunger for “culturally authentic”…